About “Nuthin’ But a G Thang”

The lead single off Dr. Dre’s debut solo album, The Chronic, reached #2 on Billboard Hot 100, and was selected by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the 500 songs that shaped rock and roll. XXL magazine went on to dubbed it the top hip-hop song of the decade.

The music video sees Dre venture to Long Beach, California to pick up Snoop and go to a block party. As arguably the first gangster rap video to gain cross-over appeal, at the time of the track’s release MTV ran the video up to 4 times an hour.

Like all the other songs on “The Chronic” Dre’s parts were written by someone else, here it’s Snoop Doggy Dogg who wrote the entire song.

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Who directed the music video?

According to Colin Wolfe, a bassist who worked with Dr. Dre during the recording of The Chronic, Dre directed the video himself. Wolfe explained Dre’s affinity for movies:

Me and Dre were deep into movies. He used to own this thing…a Lucasfilm CD sound library. It cost about $5000. We first used these in the NWA sessions. That’s where all the different sounds came from. Like offices, police stations, and various shit. That inspired Dre to want to get into movies at some point. We actually wrote a script then called The Root of All Evil with [director] Ben Bazmore. Some film people looked at it and there was interest. But we never pursued it or anything.